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Utagawa Kunisada II · late 1850s
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Hayatake Torakichi from Osaka: Performance in Ryōgoku
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Main Street of the Yoshiwara on a Starlight Night
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Iwai Shijaku II as Okame, the Daughter of a Furniture Store
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Bun’ya no Asayasu (no. 36), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Bun'ya no Asayasu)
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The Actor Ichikawa Ichizō III as Nozarashi Gosuke, likened to Shi Jin the Nine Dragoned (Kyūmonryū Shishin ni hisu), from the “Pine” triptych of the series A Modern Water Margin (Tōsei suikoden)
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Chōmeiji Temple (Chōmeiji), from the series Miracles of Kannon
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Memorial Portrait of Ichiryusai Hiroshige (1797–1858)
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Mitsuuji in the Maruyama Pleasure District of Nagasaki (Nagasaki dejima)
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